'Afternoon...thought I'd come on and say hello...have been meaning to for some time! Lucky enough to have my own wood just under seven acres,where I escape to and amongst other things do a bit of work on the sapling powered pole lathe I built there. Up to now it's mainly been in the line of Priests, beech and oak, nice and heavy! Only had the wood for just over a year so still getting yo know it. Dare say I'll keep busy on the lathe during the nesting season when felling is restricted along with putting together a similar powered saw....there must be a simple way of making it work.

Vushtrri wrote:'Afternoon...thought I'd come on and say hello...have been meaning to for some time! Lucky enough to have my own wood just under seven acres,where I escape to and amongst other things do a bit of work on the sapling powered pole lathe I built there. Up to now it's mainly been in the line of Priests, beech and oak, nice and heavy! Only had the wood for just over a year so still getting yo know it. Dare say I'll keep busy on the lathe during the nesting season when felling is restricted along with putting together a similar powered saw....there must be a simple way of making it work.

Just joined the APLTGW, and this forum. I have spent some time looking through the posts and it's tempting to spend my time doing that instead of getting outdoors.....such a lot of great advice and experience from good hearted sharing folk.

I have always been interested in working with wood, and have done various bits and pieces over the years. In my garage I still have the ancient cast iron wood lathe my brother and I were given over forty years ago, but I have fancied green wood work since seeing it on "Out of Town" on TV as a child. I have made myself a shave horse and gleaned a few tools, and made a few spoons, some with useful holes in the centre of the bowl to prevent you from eating too much (actually, just carved too deep....).

My next ambition is to build a pole lathe for turning bowls. I am also interested in a wide range of traditional crafts, and forge odd things (eg hoof picks) from my horses' old shoes.

I am based in East Herts in the UK, and wondered if there is any possibility of starting a local group. I know there are some in Herts/ Cambs/ Essex, but none very close.

Hi All. I am a pewter caster in a medieval re-enactment group specializing in the artisan crafts of the period. We have a carpender, Blacksmith, wool spinner, painter, fletcher a cook and of course casting. For this year, we hope to have a pole lathe turner. As with everything in the group, our other crafts will be helping to built the lathe and getting the display together. This will mostly be done (a)in the middle of a field. (b)with no power tools and (c)in front of an audience! We travel around the country so I will post where we are on here so if you want to see what we do, come along and say Hi.

Hi thanks for the add. I run a men's shed project at our local hospice, for bereaved men l just started a greenwood section hoping it will take someone's interest. I have built a pole lathe, made a couple of shave horse's. I l love all the old crafts but still finding me feet lol. But hopefully get loads of tips on here.

Hi I am new to green woodworking and looking sat building a shave horse and pole lathe, not sure if I should do a course on pole lathe turning first before I build it? Also I keep reading people sealing the ends of logs, if they can. It be used straight away, my question is what do you seal them with

Hello Everyone, my first name is Ian. Originally from BC. Canada and now living retired in Mexico. Currently learning more about green woodworking and spoon carving. And now I have discovered it would be nice to have more than one shape of crook knife so I have ordered three more and a shorter 120 Mora for tighter general work. Still considering building a pole lathe and gathering info. I have a power lathe and shop space is at a premium so I'll have to decide how badly I want a pole lathe. Anyways that's me to date. Saludos.

Hello, if I'm in the wrong place, sorry. I'm in the Midlands and started carving when I couldn't bear to put some of the wood I was chopping on the fire.I have a question and if anyone can put me right on this I'd be very grateful. I started carving spoons about 4 yrs ago and bowls more recently. I've used plum, sycamore, pear, apple and others that I believe are food safe, but I've used a fair bit of cherry from different sources, and am unsure what type of cherry, some quite dark and others with distinct heart wood and sap wood, all quite lovely results. I've recently seen comments saying some cherry wood is not suitable for spoons for food use - as I'm planning on selling work later in the year - this has caused a crisis of confidence, or am I just reading the wrong stuff. Thanks to anyone with any advice.